intridea.com Archives - 21 April 2013, Sunday

Get Involved. This is the obvious first step: participation. Start building a presence on the mailing list, bug tracker or other community resources for your favorite open source projects. Respect the Gift. Remember that even when an open source library is causing you frustration that...

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This past weekend I participated in Hack the Midwest , a Kansas City hackathon. The event was a huge success drawing a crowd of around 100 developers. As one of the visiting developer evangelists said, it was a great turnout for a New York hackathon, much less one in the midwest. At t...

The iPad has arrived, so let the design fun commence! Featured here is an iPad wallpaper template in Photoshop (PSD) format (download ), allowing you to easily create & test your new background creations with minimal layer nightmares. The PSD is setup to let you view a single wallpape...

Thanks to 37signals and the Re-Wired Group for hosting the Switch Workshop in Chicago last week. Jason, Bob, and Chris introduced us to the Jobs-to-be-Done framework and explored what makes us buy the products and services we buy. Buyers always switch from one product to another. For ...

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Ben Markowitz has always loved being creative, even from a young age. From working with pencil and paper, to Legos, and then on to his first computer, an Apple IIgs he was always exploring new ways to draw out his vision and create interesting designs. Ben attended James Madison Unive...

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Thanks to 37signals and the Re-Wired Group for hosting the Switch Workshop in Chicago last week. Jason, Bob, and Chris introduced us to the Jobs-to-be-Done framework and explored what makes us buy the products and services we buy. Buyers always switch from one product to another. For ...

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Calling Methods on Potential Nil Objects in Rails By Raymond Law November 2, 2010 in rails Rails adds a pretty cool Object#try method. From Rails doc: try(method, *args, &block) This Invokes the method identified by the symbol method, passing it any arguments and/or the block specifie...

Anthony is a forward-thinking, charismatic professional who loves technology and working with software teams who are building collaborative, cutting edge and disruptive web, mobile and desktop-based software focused on enabling, empowering and encouraging people to engage software tec...

Anthony is a forward-thinking, charismatic professional who loves technology and working with software teams who are building collaborative, cutting edge and disruptive web, mobile and desktop-based software focused on enabling, empowering and encouraging people to engage software tec...

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Anthony is a forward-thinking, charismatic professional who loves technology and working with software teams who are building collaborative, cutting edge and disruptive web, mobile and desktop-based software focused on enabling, empowering and encouraging people to engage software tec...

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Anthony is a forward-thinking, charismatic professional who loves technology and working with software teams who are building collaborative, cutting edge and disruptive web, mobile and desktop-based software focused on enabling, empowering and encouraging people to engage software tec...

Anthony is a forward-thinking, charismatic professional who loves technology and working with software teams who are building collaborative, cutting edge and disruptive web, mobile and desktop-based software focused on enabling, empowering and encouraging people to engage software tec...

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I always love traveling to DC. Meeting up with fellow Intrideans is incredibly motivating and satisfying. I had this chance yet again over the last couple days for an event; Open Analytics Summit , whereby Intridea was a sponsor. As well, we had a speaking slot. A few other companies ...

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Lessons Learned: Natively Compiling Tidy HTML for Heroku By Michael Bleigh May 2, 2012 in heroku , compiling , tidy , vulcan Recently I was working on a project and wanted to be able to utilize Tidy to clean up some HTML output. I added the tidy_ffi gem to my project and voila, it wor...

Ben Markowitz has always loved being creative, even from a young age. From working with pencil and paper, to Legos, and then on to his first computer, an Apple IIgs he was always exploring new ways to draw out his vision and create interesting designs. Ben attended James Madison Unive...

Marc is a MITX award-winning solutions architect. Prior to joining Intridea, Marc was Vice President of Interactive Development at Bridgeline Digital. Marc has developed web solutions for the National Children's Museum, the Washington Redskins, Hooked on Phonics, and Congressional Qua...

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Marc is a MITX award-winning solutions architect. Prior to joining Intridea, Marc was Vice President of Interactive Development at Bridgeline Digital. Marc has developed web solutions for the National Children's Museum, the Washington Redskins, Hooked on Phonics, and Congressional Qua...

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Thank you to our beta testers and early adopters for making Tweetsentiments such a success! The community has used Tweetsentiments for projects as diverse as major media marketing campaigns to academic research. We’ve ended our testing period and now offer access to the Tweetsentiment...

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Tom is passionate about leading edge technologies, he enjoys building awesome applications with the talented people at Intridea. He had many years of experience with building enterprise applications using Java. His current favorite tools are Ruby and Rails, CoffeeScript, and MongoDB, ...

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Earlier this month I had the opportunity to speak at KCRuby about a topic of my choosing. Rather than use the opportunity to put together a trial run of my upcoming Red Dirt Ruby talk , I decided at the last minute to talk about something that's been on my mind for a long time. While ...

Marc is a MITX award-winning solutions architect. Prior to joining Intridea, Marc was Vice President of Interactive Development at Bridgeline Digital. Marc has developed web solutions for the National Children's Museum, the Washington Redskins, Hooked on Phonics, and Congressional Qua...

Marc is a MITX award-winning solutions architect. Prior to joining Intridea, Marc was Vice President of Interactive Development at Bridgeline Digital. Marc has developed web solutions for the National Children's Museum, the Washington Redskins, Hooked on Phonics, and Congressional Qua...

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With Yahoo's recent decision to disallow any and all remote work the remote work debate has reached a new fever pitch. DHH weighed in with his thoughts mostly around trust and what signal you're sending your employees. To me the more troubling idea isn't about what signal you're sendi...

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Jake Mauer has been building and tinkering since he could hold Lego bricks. Interested in art and photography he moved to Baltimore to study Interactive Media at the Maryland Institute College of Art. After four years of fun, photography, and ferrofluid sculptures (four times fast) he...

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Tom is passionate about leading edge technologies, he enjoys building awesome applications with the talented people at Intridea. He had many years of experience with building enterprise applications using Java. His current favorite tools are Ruby and Rails, CoffeeScript, and MongoDB, ...

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I was working on a project where I needed to send out a daily digest email. The emails needed to be sent out on a scheduled interval, not as the result of some user action. This meant that it would need to be handled outside of the normal request/response cycle. Typically in the Rails...

A dedicated user experience developer with nearly a decade of experience building complex web applications, Mike has worked with startups, colleges and design agencies, always with a focus on creating quality interactive experiences. Mike is a proud alumni of the University of Arizona...

Brooks PureConnect Running Shoes I spend more time thinking about shoes than I care to admit, but when I'm running I want something that's going to take care of my feet and make the experience as enjoyable as possible. Of all the shoes I have tried, the Brooks PureConnect do live up t...

This past weekend I participated in Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) hosted by the OpenGov Hub in DC. I attended my first RHoK event in June of 2010 after reading about it on slashdot, and I ended up working on a winning project. I've been a regular at the event ever since. I was extra...

Seeking Ruby on Rails developers for both remote and onsite (in NYC or DC) positions. Intridea is a recognized industry leader in Rails development, and our team is growing. From helping startup clients launch the latest and greatest products, to designing and building apps for compan...